TV CRIMEDUSTERS.(producers of 'C.S.I: Crime Scene Investigation')(Brief Article)(Interview)

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 03-JUN-02

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Carol Mendelsohn was changing her shoes in the limo. "I don't know how many shoes I've ruined at crime scenes," she said, as she stowed her Robert Clergerie flats and put on a pair of nineteen-dollar Lady Foot Locker sneakers. "I've run through so many pairs of Pradas," Ann Donahue said. Anthony Zuiker looked down at his own Armani slippers and crossed his legs complacently.

Mendelsohn, Donahue, and Zuiker are the executive producers of CBS's "C.S.I.: Crime Scene Investigation," the top-rated drama on television. The show improbably romanticizes the grubby world of forensics: its Las Vegas-based investigators decant Luminol onto a victim's carpet as if it were Chateau Lafite. The producers were in Manhattan for a few days recently to announce a spinoff for the fall--"C.S.I.: Miami," starring David Caruso--and, having the morning free,...

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